~.-~    535 Butterfly effect

"From the perspective of [institutional science]...it's right to say that this big pillar brings the 'key'."

Wutong circled around the divine platform, looked carefully at the patterns on it, and walked around the altar to observe the figures on the ground. Although the rune array diagram on the ground was worn out and covered with thick moss, some things could still be observed from the traces above.

"This metal pillar, including this altar, should be the hub device that controls the entire dungeon!"

Wutong stretched out her finger and pointed to the twelve slightly shallow traces around the altar. They were originally used to insert twelve thunder totem poles. Although it was covered with a layer of moss, it was much thinner than other places.

"If you guess correctly, this altar should have been built with the mechanical technology of ancient higher goblins. To put it simply, this thing is like a switch. Whenever the pillar rises... I guess it only rises in lightning weather, like a lightning rod, which leads the lightning in the sky into the depths of the device and then stores it as energy."

Everyone looked at each other, and Ling Yue Shuangxue couldn't help but shout, "Hey! Boss, "Entertainment" is a fantasy theme, not a science fiction theme! What you said sounds like mechanical civilization content!"

Wutong smiled: "Yes, yes, it sounds a bit inconsistent with the overall environment of "Endless"? In fact, the fantasy world of "Endless" itself contains the branch of the civilization of "Steampunk", and the goblin civilization is the successor of the "Steampunk civilization"."

"Steampunk? What is that? It refers to the steam engine? The origin of industrial civilization?" Ling Yue Shuangxue, who did not understand this aspect, was a little puzzled.

“Steampunk, a mixture of ‘steam:steam’ and ‘punk’. ‘steam’ represents a large-scale machinery powered by steam, while ‘punk’ is a non-mainstream marginal culture…”

After all, the super gamers are professional in this convenience. Unlimited explanations and said: "I accidentally glanced at these contents in the official information package. In the game, it means a world where technology and magic coexist. In the past, some traditional online games were based on steampunk. As long as the content contains both content that represents technological productivity and supernatural content, it is just a game."

"Yes, some traditional online games call this type of civilization 'magic civilization'. If you want to know about it, you will search for the virtual community database and you will have a lot of relevant information."

After nodding in agreement, Hammer nodded, he also said: "However, as far as our team is studying the official data package, in the context of "Endless", it seems that the steampunk civilization has declined and lost, and magic... that is, the arcane art in "Endless", and the magic technique seems to be rapidly declining. According to this progress, the world in "Endless" may return to the "right track" of the real world we know, and the technological civilization will regain its head and take the dominant position. More detailed content will be gone."

Wutong nodded. The super players' background is indeed not comparable to ordinary players. Even though he finished judging the library of the Vinante Academy and judging a large number of precious private collections of the teachers, the information he obtained was only slightly more than theirs.

Otherwise, the official information package bound to the Supreme Platinum VIP account will only be useful for these extraordinary super games. Even if you give him a Supreme Platinum, he will not be able to have the patience to read it and study the value contained therein.

According to the background description of "Endless", not only the goblin civilization that inherits the steampunk civilization has perished, but the mysterious culture that represents "mysticism" and the divine culture that represents "metaphysics" have all shown serious signs of decline in the current world era of "Endless".

The content recorded in those books described that in an earlier era, the status of the wizard was equal to that of God, which shows how high the level of Austral civilization reached at that time. In this era, the gods no longer showed miracles, descended oracles, appointed god walkers, and even lost contact with believers.

From the ancient collections of the major temples, clues that describe the "Twilight of Gods" in the ancient times can be found. Judging from Wutong, the "unbeliever", the gods that have not appeared for thousands of years have long been completely wiped out in the "Twilight of Gods" war. However, the major temples refused to recognize this, and the external arguments are that the believers are not pious enough.

These are too far away for players. Not to mention the extremely distant ancient times, ancient times, even in modern times, things from hundreds of years ago are already out of reach for players. Apart from some idle and painful historians and archaeologists, no one is interested in what is buried under the dust of history.

The original power of a mage is knowledge. The richer the knowledge he has, the greater the power he has, although this power is not reflected in lethality.

For example, if this earth spiritual hall does not have the accumulation of knowledge, even if the participating teams carry wanderers with superb trap skills, they may not be able to find a way to open this Thunder Totem array. This is not something that the wanderer's lock-opening skills can handle.

There is a specialty in the profession, which is why adventure teams usually require cooperation from different professions. No one is a genius who can be omniscient and omnipotent.

"Okay... Although I don't understand, it sounds very powerful, but I want to know, how can we open this thing?" Xiao San muttered impatiently.

"Why would you let the barbarians come over and 'pull the radish'? The cook, barbarians, dwarfs, eagles, Grom's beast, and I can help you. With our 2nd level strength, maybe we can pull it out?"

Three days of life rubbed his chin on his head, and the other nodded in agreement. The troll is a giant race. Although Three days of life is a wizard profession, Wutong estimated that his melee ability will not be worse than that of a warrior.

"You think you six of you can handle the twenty bears that cannot be picked up?"

Wutong was very suspicious. Although everyone was promoted to level 2 and their power attributes had a qualitative leap in close combat, it seemed unrealistic to say that the six of them were even greater than the total strength of the twenty Xiong Manzis.

Wutong asked this and was unsure of Santiansheng and muttered: "Anyway, do you have to try it?" "Yes, yes!" The other head agreed.

He ignored the two heads who had the bad taste of chatting with him. Wutong circled around the altar while trying to find a way, but they could not wait, and the warriors outside couldn't wait, shouting: "Hey! Are you doing well inside?"

"We are not the guards, so what if we always stick around here?"

Although the goblins do not pose much threat to them, it is boring to kill these fish with little experience in the past, right?

"Ah! I thought of it!"

Surprisingly, Wutong, who was highly anticipated by everyone, could not come up with a solution. Instead, Xiao San started to yell, attracting everyone to look at the cat mother. Xiao San excitedly stuck his tail and said happily: "The last time the big pillar rose was because the goblins inserted the thunder totem into the holes around them. Why don't we try it too?"

Wutong was stunned. On the last night of Thunder and Fire, he was still in the state of a ball. His perception of the surrounding environment was not clear. Instead, Xiao San knew it clearly. He quickly poured out twelve dark totem poles as thick as sea bowls from the dimension bag.

Without asking the barbarians to help, the troll wizard volunteered to step forward, grabbed the heavy thunder totem with one hand and inserted it hard according to the traces on the altar. Then he heard the sound of locking "Click! Click!", and soon the twelve totem poles were re-integrated around the altar.

But after inserting the totem pole, everyone looked at the big pillar in the middle with anticipation, but after a while, they didn't react much, and they couldn't help but focus their attention on Xiao San again.

"Well..."

Xiao San was panicked. Last time she saw the goblins inserting the pillars, the thunder totem array was activated. Why didn't it work this time?

He was anxiously turning around the pillar a few times. Xiao San turned his big eyes and suddenly hit his palm with his small fist: "Ah! I remembered it! After inserting the pillar, the goblin wizards seemed to have pressed their claws on these pillars and did something, and then the pillars had an arc and started!"

Do you still need a special startup method?

After looking at each other, everyone shouted in unison to the barbarians who blocked the tide outside: "Leave the spirit under the knife!"

When they rushed out of the sacrificial hall, they saw that the corpses of the goblins had accumulated to block the entire pyramid's stairs, and the original group of goblin wizards and goblin priests had long been cut off!

Everyone was stunned, what should I do?

"Sure enough, the competition task is not simple!?"

Infinite sighed that this is just a re-election task, it is already so difficult. How difficult will the final election and chief battle be?

The requirement for the re-selection task is to detect the kowtowel tribe and the goblin tribe, but the task is obviously not that simple, otherwise the content that each team can detect is similar. How to judge the pros and cons?

Therefore, to win the re-selected mission, you must detect more information from others, and the ground tribe is almost flattened by players, so what's the secret?

If you want to detect more information, you must dig out hidden secret maps, such as dungeons, secret rooms, ruins and caves that have not been discovered. If you go through the architectural relics in the goblin tribe, you may be able to find some rooms buried by collapsed earth and rocks, but how many players have the skills to explore the underground? They are not tomb robbers and groundhogs.

Besides, when finding a hidden secret room, there is no high score for opening a dusty dungeon. The key to opening a dungeon is this Thunder Totem Array. This Thunder Totem Array has been placed here for countless years and no one has moved it. After the barbarians used brute force to remove the twelve Thunder Totem Poles, they directly lost the possibility of opening. By chance, the temple ruins of Zeke, the god of the goblin, have not been opened until now.

Theoretically, according to the plot development trajectory, the ruins of Zeke Temple should be opened at the same time as the Dragon Clan Fortress [Dalas Trifan].

However, because someone opened [Dalas Tribe] in advance and also opened the second level of [Dalas Tribe], coupled with the influence of [Storm Moon Tide], the dog-headed people in the Dark Kowtower Tribe mutated and evolved in advance!

With the superposition of the two, the power of the Dog Kowloon tribe and the strength of the Dog Kowloon have risen too fast. The speed of players' ability to improve their strength is not as good as the Dog Kowloon. Therefore, the difficulty of [Dalas Trifan] has always been high, causing players to rarely come to sweep the Dragon Fortress hidden in the sea of ​​dogs. So far, the first level of [Dalas Trifan] has rarely been destroyed, let alone the second level.

As for the ruins of Zeke Temple, due to the influence of someone, a group of barbarians confusedly pulled away the totem pole that ordinary people with normal minds and would not pull out at all, causing the opening of the ruins of the temple to be unlimitedly postponed. The mutations and evolution of the goblins were delayed. Not only did they not be able to rob the mortal enemy of the dog, but they were also regarded as an amusement park by players who had lost a leveling place, which was a disastrous waste. Even the number of goblins decreased greatly due to the massacre of players.

As mentioned earlier, the monsters in "Endless" are not "system refreshed", but are increased by the "breeding" mode. However, this kind of player generally cannot see the scene of others' reproduction, which is an implicit increase in the number of monsters.

Therefore, whenever the number of monster groups decreases, the speed of reproduction and production will increase. The number of groups increases, and the restriction of food sources, the reproduction speed will slow down. Only in this way can a monster group be reproductive.

Once the player's slaughter speed exceeds the upper limit of the reproductive speed... After all, it is not like a submachine gun that can lead to small monsters coming out of their butts. It takes a certain amount of time for the mother monster to breed and the growth of small monsters, although this time is relatively short.

If the death rate exceeds the reproduction rate, the base of the monster group will continue to decline, and the reproduction number will also decrease relatively, which will eventually lead to the collapse of the monster group (note! It is not extinction!). For a period of time in the area, the monsters in the tribe will disappear until the individual monsters hide and reproduce to a certain scale before they will reappear in the area for activities.

If a fierce man completely destroys the monster clan before it disintegrates, or the individuals that disperse are all male... so embarrassing! Then this monster in this area will completely disappear and truly extinct.

However, generally speaking, this situation is difficult to happen because often the places where the monsters gather in large numbers are the living areas suitable for the reproduction of such creatures. Even if a certain monster group in the area becomes extinct, after a period of time, monsters of the same species in other areas will accidentally run to the area to settle down, and eventually they will emerge in clusters like mushrooms after the rain.

By the same token, the corpses left behind after the monster's death were not "system refreshed", but were replaced in the form of a food chain, either naturally degraded, or infected by negative energy to become undead creatures, or become food for other creatures, becoming nutrients that increase the number of other biological groups.

So, under the influence of some subtle butterfly effect, if Wutong and the others still did not take out the twelve thunder totems today, then the temple remains of Zeke, the god of goblin, would probably continue to be buried underground!

"Do you have to leave the Thunder Totem here and wait for the goblin wizard to refresh, then we will attack the temple?" Everyone looked at me, and I didn't pay attention to you.

"The competition time is only seventy-two hours! There are only more than sixty hours left, so we still took the advantage of half a step ahead and arrived in Oraon first. It is estimated that the other participating teams have just arrived now, and have not even arrived in Oraon yet!

It takes about 4 hours to get a four-wheeled carriage from Fairhaven City to reach Olaon City at the fastest speed, but there are so many participating teams at the same time, and it is not too easy to get a carriage in a short time, so it is calculated based on 6 hours.

It takes another five or six hours to walk from Oraon into the depths of the forest and reach the Goblin Tribe or the Goblin Tribe. Why do you have to fight with the Goblin Sea on the Peripheral for a period of time?”

Ling Yue Shuangxue couldn't help but say, "It's calculated based on fifteen hours. The participating players will have to spend about fifteen hours just by rushing here, and the return journey will take another fifteen hours, which means that the time to stay in the dungeon is only forty hours.

This is considered as if we can enter the underground temple immediately as soon as we arrive at the goblin tribe. We have the Thunder Totem in our hands, and we have taken such a big advantage, and we are stuck here. What should we do if we change to other participating teams?

Waiting for the goblin wizard to refresh? The wizards are not born so quickly in the clan, right?

If we didn’t come to participate in the re-election competition, or chose the Dog-Kowloon Tribe, the Earth Spirit Hall would be impossible to open. Wouldn’t all the teams that chose the Earth Spirit Hall be disqualified?”

"Yes! The competition organizer has no reason to set such a big trap, right?"

Wuxian and the others also agreed with Ling Yue Shuangxue's idea, but the dark-bellied face suddenly appeared in Wutong's mind, and she couldn't help but sweat. Maybe the old man was too lazy to set questions and planned to eliminate as many participating teams as possible as possible and directly enter the final chief battle?

Anyway, the teams in the chief battle do not need to participate in the previous primary election, re-election, final election, and participation will not be included in the final results. For those unlucky teams who chose the wrong task location, he shamelessly declared: "Luck is part of the strength." to make excuses.

After all, for mages, wasting time is wasting life, let alone those of them who have lived in a few days. With this time to watch the children play house competition, it is better to go back to the laboratory to do more magic tests.

Trouble: I originally wanted to eat more than fifty steel slaughter, but I still have two thousand left to write it... Forget it, I just think it's a manuscript.

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Chapter completed!